Invictus Games is one of Prince Harry’s greatest pride and joy, so much so that since its launch, he has attended the games religiously.
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Every year, veterans from more countries join the annual games, competing in different sporting activities. The best thing about it is that it is designed to exclusively benefit wounded veterans.
Director Of The Invictus Games Foundation Reveals Prince Harry Went “Rogue” with Invictus Games’ Timeline
In 2014, Prince Harry’s Invictus Games was born. However, according to David Wiseman, the director of the Invictus Games Foundation, this might have taken longer had Harry stuck to the time frame.
Wiseman said: “We didn’t realise the time frame that he made in mind. Bearing in mind that was May 2013, we went back to the Warrior Games that afternoon, and he stood on stage at the podium, and I think it had been written in his speech, that vision to say, ’Look, we’d like to do this’.”
He also recalled that the 39-year-old had attached a timeline to his announcement, which shocked them at the time. “I think he’d added his own note that said ‘next year’. He went rogue! We were like, ‘What? Next year?’ For a long time, there were three or four of us at the Royal Foundation managing this project.”
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Happily, after working hard to keep up with Harry’s timeline, the first annual Invictus Games took place on “September 2014. We were there, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it might have been by the skin of our teeth but we were there!”
Prince Harry Always Wanted Invictus Games To Become A Global Sporting Event
Even when it was in its first year, Harry entertained big plans for the games, “We were sitting down at breakfast, it wasn’t a meeting or anything like that, and Harry said, ‘Look, this is absolutely brilliant, what we’ve seen here is absolutely brilliant. What we need to do is internationalise this.”
He added: “We need to invite allies and nations from all over the world, we’re going to put it in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it needs to be on the BBC, this is going to be massive, we’ll have a closing concert.’ He could see it before anyone else could.”
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And now, with these dreams fulfilled, Harry is pushing for new heights. With Nigeria and other countries added this year, it’s only a matter of time until Invictus Games gets as many participating nations as the Olympics.
This year, a documentary on the Invictus Games premiered on Netflix as part of the multi-million dollar deal Harry and Meghan signed with the streaming platform.
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